Enchanted lives, enchanted objects
Subtitle: American women collectors and the making of culture, 1800-1940
By: Dianne Sachko Macleod.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780520237292
Subjects: Women art collectors -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women art collectors -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "This book offers the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon of women art collectors in America. Dianne Sachko Macleod brings a surprising paradox to light, showing that collecting, which provided wealthy women with a private sense of solace, also liberated them to venture into the public sphere and make a lasting contribution to the emerging American culture. Beginning in the antebellum period, continuing through the Gilded Age, and reaching well into the twentieth century, Macleod shows how elite women enlisted the objets d'art and avant-garde paintings in their collections in causes ranging from the founding of modern museums to the campaign for women's suffrage."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.